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1839 June 29. continued. of the chiefs will be taken inti early consideration, as some of the Chiefs will remain at the Fort until they know the result.

June 29. Capt: WM Armstrong, Acting Superintendent , Western Territory, writes from the not clearBureu, Arkansus, to TT. Hartley Crawford Esq, Commissioner of Indian Affairs, Washington. He avails himself of an opportunity to write on his way back to the Agency. When he left home, apprehending difficulties, he hurried back. He has learned there that the two Ridges & Boudinot have been killed. He says the Ross is at his own residence, eighteen miles from Fort Gibson, guarded by person five hundred to a thousand Cherokees; that the whole nation is in a high state of excitement. The writer proceeds that day to the agency & the next up to Fort Gibson. In his next he will advise more fully: he hopes, with the co-operation of Gen: Arbuckle, some accommodation of differences may b e effected.

Jume 30. John Ross, Geo: Lowry, Edward Gunter & Lewis Ross, on behalf of the Eastern Cherokees, reply from Park Hill to the communication of Gen: Arbuckle & Gov: Stokes, United States Indian Agent, dated June 29 & covering the proposition dated June 28, from the Western Chiefs. --- The writers had recd the joint letter of the General Agent, with the accompanying communication from the western chiefs, by Capt: McCall.- They perfectly co-incide with the judgement of Gen: A & Gov: L that two governments cannot & ought not to exist in the Cherokee nation any longer than arrangements can be made for uniting the two communities. In conformity with these views, their best endeavours had been used to bring about this desirable event in a manner satisfactory to all parties, by which all rights "not clear" be provided for, and the peace & wellbeing of the Cherokees permanently secured. They have claimed no jurisdiction over their western brothers: consistently with the responsibilities with which their constitutency had invested